Scarf.



A. J. MANDBL & M. COHEN.

SOARF.

APPLICATION FILED APR.3,1912.

1,096,549, Patented May 12, 1914.

ARTHUR J'. MANDEL AND MAX COHEN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SO'ARF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1914.

Application filed April 3, 1912. Serial No. 688,154.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ARTHUR J. MANDEL and MAX COHEN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Cleveland, count-y of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Scarfs, of which the following is aspecification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which we have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

The present invention relates to scarfs of that type generally known as mufflers, and the object of the invent-ion is to provide a muffler which may be conveniently formed with a collar and which will at the same time provide better protection for the neck and chest of the wearer.

To the accomplishment of these and related ends, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail a certain device embodying the invention, such disclosed device constituting, however, but one of various forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said annexed drawing :Figure 1 is a perspective View of the muffler as it is when in use; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the muffler.

The muHier comprises an elongated body 1 which will preferably be formed as an integral knitted structure provided at its ends with any desired ornamental fringe, for instance. At equal distances from the respective ends of the body there are provided two recesses 2 which are not cut but are formed during the knitting of the body. The recesses extend from one edge of the body substantially at right angles thereto, and they preferably extend less than half way across the body from edge to edge. At the inner ends of the recesses 2 cooperative clasp members 3, or other fastening means, are secured to the body. It will be seen therefore that between the recesses Qthere is provided a part of the body a separated by an imaginary line 5 from the laterally adjacent part 6 of the body, and that outwardly be ond the recesses 2 there are the end parts of the body.

When it is desired to use the muffler, instead of merely passing it around the neck with the consequent bulging and lack of fit, as in the ordinary muiller, the wearer first folds the part 4 upon the laterally adjacent part of the body. This operation provides a central portion of the body which is of less width than the ends, or in other words its width will be the distance between the right edge in F ig. 2 and the imaginary line 5, whereas the end parts will be of the same width as they are shown in Fig. 2. Furthcrmore, the central portion so formed will be of double thickness for part of its width, or in other words from the imaginary line 5 extending to the right to the edge of the part 4: which has been folded upon part 6. Consequently, in addition to the central part of less width than the ends and of double thickness for a part of its width, there is a. space between the end parts for part of their width, that is the space occupied by the part 4 before it was folded over.

Having so folded the part 4, the wearer dons the scarf, and snaps one of the clasp members upon the other to fasten it in place, and its appearance is then as shown in Fig. 1. Instead of bulging up around the neck, the mufl'ler is provided, because of the peculiar folded portion, with a double collar which not only fits the neck much better than the prevailing type of muffler, but which is far more attractive in appear ance. Furthermore, in the prevailing type of muffler there is only one thickness of material depending over the wearers chest, and even that one thickness is dependent upon a series of clasps arranged down the scarf. Our invention, however, by reason of the recesses and the peculiar fold, causes the two end portions 7 to lie one upon the other so that the chest of the wearer is protected by a double thickness of the body of the scarf, and this disposition of the end parts is maintained by the single clasp which is disposed, because of the recesses and fold, substantially midway between the lateral edges of the end parts,

Our invention of providing the mulller with the recesses and fold therefor provides, in folded condition, a muiller with a collar of double thickness adapted to fit the neck closely and without bulging, and a double thickness of material over the chest of the wearer, and the maintenance of the muffler in such position by a single clasp.

Other modes of applying the principle of our invention may be employed instead of the one explained, change being made as regards the device herein disclosed, provided the means stated by the following claim or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

We therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as our invention A scarf comprising an elongated substantially rectangular one-piece knitted body, having tWo recesses equidistant from its respective ends and extending not more than half the Width of the body at substantially right angles from one edge thereof, whereby 15 the part of the body between said recesses may be folded along a longitudinal fold onto the outer side or the adjacent part of the body to form a rectangular central portion of double thickness and of less Width than the rectangular end portions; and c0- operative fastening members disposed at the inner ends of said recesses.

Signed by us this 30th day of March, 1912.

ARTHUR J. MANDEL. MAX COHEN.

Attested by ROBERT M. SEE D. T. Dnvms.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

